{"id":13432,"date":"2025-09-19T00:47:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gops-new-jan-6-panel-sends-letters-to-doj-university-of-virginia-and-others\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:47:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:47:39","slug":"gops-new-jan-6-panel-sends-letters-to-doj-university-of-virginia-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gops-new-jan-6-panel-sends-letters-to-doj-university-of-virginia-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP\u2019s new Jan. 6 panel sends letters to DOJ, University of Virginia and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The new GOP-led committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi, the University of Virginia and other businesses for information from the previous Democratic-led panel that investigated the Capitol attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican leaders claim the information they\u2019re pursuing was never disclosed by the previous panel. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important first step in unraveling the predetermined narrative the former January 6th Select Committee crafted to hurt President Donald J. Trump,\u201d Chair Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) said in a statement. \u201cWhy else would their committee delete or fail to properly archive more than a terabyte of data?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many materials in the previous panel\u2019s possession ultimately became public. But some were never released, including footage of witness interviews. <\/p>\n<p>Loudermilk and other Republicans have maintained that the previous panel\u2019s probe was politically motivated. In creating the new GOP investigation, Loudermilk intends to rewrite the record of the Capitol attack.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the University of Virginia and the Department of Justice, Loudermilk\u2019s letters also went to Broadcast Management Group Inc., Polar Solutions Inc., PATCtech, Design in DC LLC, and Verbit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new GOP-led committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi, the University of Virginia and other businesses for information from the previous Democratic-led panel that investigated the Capitol attack. The Republican leaders claim the information they\u2019re pursuing was never disclosed by the previous panel. \u201cThis is an important first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}